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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Somar Family Foundation

The foundation was established in order to create a systematic efficient and enduring organization for the allocation of charitable funds.

C$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$26k
C$7,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$607k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HADASSAH-WIZO ORGANIZATION OF CANADAC$26,207
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICESC$8,810
CALGARY JEWISH FEDERATIONC$7,500
JEWISH COMMUNIT FOUNDATION OF CALGARYC$1,800
CALGARY BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION SOCIETYC$1,050
PARKINSONS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTAC$250
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$340k · 8 repeat orgsC$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

C$340k
C$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+26%

Still filing today

88%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • CJ
    CALGARY JEWISH FEDERATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$138k · revenue +46%
  • BO
    BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE BANFF CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$86k · revenue +355%
  • HO
    HADASSAH-WIZO ORGANIZATION OF CANADA
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$43k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • CC
    CANADAHELPS CANADON
    one grant, 2022 · C$11k · revenue +2%
  • CO
    CENTRAL ORGANIZATION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION LUBAVITCH ALBERTAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$7k · revenue +26%
  • CP
    CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +141%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Friends of the Calgary Jewish Academy Trust

The charitycontinues to receive donations and investment revenue and to make allocations to 'the calgary jewish academy'

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2
Calgary Eye Foundation

Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.

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3
Calgary Arts Foundation

Calgary arts foundation was created to generate financial support for the calgary arts sector. the foundation is focused on the arts creative industries and cultural sector to strengthen existing programs that support organizations artists…

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4
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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5
Calgary Jewish Academy

The calgary jewish academy is a private religious school which offers a dual program the alberta education curriculum and the judaics program. the main goal is to enhance religious educational programs.

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6
The Calgary Foundation

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…

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7
Calgary Arts Academy Foundation

In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.

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8
The Edmonton Jewish Community Charitable Foundation

The edmonton jewish community charitable foundation (ejccf) helps support jewish causes that are important to them. we provide resources to make the community's vision a reality working in partnership with our donors and striving to ensure…

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9
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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10
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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11
Calgary Community Kollel Society

Providing educational social and recreational programs to Jewish adults and children.

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12
Alberta Cancer Foundation

The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is The Toni Kohn-Woodward Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALGARY JEWISH FEDERATION — C$138,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE BANFF CENTER — C$86,413 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetHADASSAH-WIZO ORGANIZATION OF CANADA — C$43,139 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBeth Tzedec — C$32,493 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — C$25,152 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND — C$11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$11,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ORGANIZATION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION LUBAVITCH ALBERTA — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetParkinson Association of Alberta — C$1,960 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNIT FOUNDATION OF CALGARY — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBanff Centre — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY — C$1,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTONI KOHN WOODWARD FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHRIVE FOR GOOD — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Chinatown Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWellspring Calgary — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP B'NAI B'RITH SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF ALBERTA — C$585 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiver Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Lodge Menorah Foundation — C$300 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Community Foun…The Philip and Harrie…Sam Ousher Switzer Ch…The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Calgary Lodge Menorah…Zlc FoundationThe Alvin and Mona Li…Private Giving Founda…ATB Investor Services…Place2Give FoundationCanada Gives
Jewish Community Foundation of CalgaryAB16.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · The Philip and Harriet Libin Family Foundation · Sam Ousher Switzer Charitable Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Lodge Menorah Charitable Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · ATB Investor Services Foundation · Place2Give Foundation · Canada Gives

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 821098878:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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